23-year-old fatally shot in Iberville complex

A 23-year-old New Orleans man was shot and killed in the Iberville public housing complex Friday night, police said.

Police received a call at 7:18 p.m. of a man shot, and found the Mark Oneal lying in front of a building in the 1400 block of Conti Street, police spokeswoman Officer Jonette Williams said.

He died at 8:44 p.m. at Tulane University Hospital, said chief coroner's investigator John Gagliano, who identified the man. An autopsy is scheduled today.

Police had not established a motive or a suspect in the shooting, Williams said.

Oneal was shot in the back of the head, Williams said. Police officials had no further information on the circumstances of the shooting.

Police had no evidence that someone might try to avenge the crime, but "in an abundance of caution" were putting additional officers into the complex Friday night to deter any "possible retaliation," Deputy Chief Anthony Cannatella said.

Officers from a "crime abatement team," a specialized unit made up of local and federal officers that was created by Police Superintendent Warren Riley in November to "flood the zone" where drug-trafficking or other major crime has occurred, was patrolling the area following the shooting, Cannatella said.